The Benefits of Eating Raw Garlic Cloves. Garlic may provide many health benefits. Every woman certainly knows the disadvantage of eating raw garlic -- bad breath -- but because there seems to be many health benefits linked to the little white cloves, they could offset the social stigma of their scent.
A fever is a body temperature above 100.4Â°F. A normal oral temperature for a resting, healthy adult is about 98.6Â°F (37Â°C) (for someone over 70 normal temp is 96.8Â°F (36Â°C)).Your temperature can go up or down 1 to 2 degrees throughout the day. Fever is a sign of inflammation or infection and is a common symptom of illness. Fever is not a disease. fever can be divided into three stages. 1  Onset is when the temperature first begins to go up. 2  During the course of the fever the temperature can go up and down in one of three patterns: continuous, intermittent or remittent. 3  During the subsiding stage the temperature returns to normal.
Harrison's principles of internal medicine defines a fever as a morning oral temperature of >37.2 Â°C (>98.9 Â°F) or an afternoon oral temperature of >37.7 Â°C (>99.9 Â°F) while the normal daily temperature variation is typically 0.5 Â°C (0.9 Â°F).